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"content": "\u003cp>Election Day is here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Californians already have cast their ballots. Slowly, but surely, the Golden State \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/hist_absentee.htm\" target=\"_blank\">has turned to vote-by-mail\u003c/a>; 65 percent of ballots were mailed in during the 2012 election and 58 percent during the last midterm election in 2010. Two counties, Alpine and Sierra, conduct all their voting by mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the proud, \"I Voted\" sticker-bearing few, enter your address below to find out \u003cstrong>where to vote\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://projects1.kqed.org/election2014/findvote.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also call your \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/find-polling-place.htm\">local county elections office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don't remember if you're \u003cstrong>registered to vote\u003c/strong>? You can check by county:\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/alco_ssl_app/rov/voter_info/voter_profile.jsp?formLanguage=E\" target=\"_blank\">Alameda\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"http://www.cocovote.us/voter-registration/voter-registration-lookup/#VoterLookupSearch\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"http://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/voter-registration/register/am-i-registered\" target=\"_blank\">Marin\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"https://secure.countyofnapa.org/VoterInfo/\" target=\"_blank\">Napa\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"www.sfelections.org/VoterRegStatus/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"www.shapethefuture.org/MyElectionMaterials/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">San Mateo\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"http://eservices.sccgov.org/voterlookup/home.do\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Clara\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.solano.ca.us/depts/rov/voter_registration/voterregstatus.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Solano\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"http://vote.sonoma-county.org/voter_registration_status.aspx?sid=1009\" target=\"_blank\">Sonoma\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>If you still have your vote-by-mail ballot, don't mail it in\u003c/strong>. Ballots need to be received by 8 p.m. on Election Day, not postmarked. This mistake \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/21/vote-by-mail-file-correctly/\" target=\"_blank\">acounted for about 61 percent\u003c/a> of uncounted mailed-in ballots in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What you should do is put the ballot back in the special return envelope and fill in the required information. Make sure you \u003cstrong>sign the ballot\u003c/strong>, and that the signature matches the signature on your voter registration form. Then you can turn in the ballot to any polling place in your county on Election Day. You can also authorize someone else to turn in your ballot by filling out the authorization box on the vote-by-mail envelope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you \u003cstrong>lost your vote-by-mail ballot\u003c/strong> you can vote at your regular polling place, call your \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/find-polling-place.htm?polling-location\" target=\"_blank\">county elections official\u003c/a> for more information or cast a provisional ballot.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Richmond’s City Council and Mayoral races won’t be the only hot topics at the polls Tuesday, and Chevron isn’t the only entity flooding money into this year’s campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two pro-charter school PACs and one pro-charter school couple have poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into a School Board race that has not received much attention from financial contributors elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an open letter called “Our Schools Are Not For Sale,” a group of 28 parents from the WCCUSD (West Contra Costa Unified School District) voiced their concerns regarding charter schools and the influx of “campaign money from deep-pocketed charter school supporters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I also believe that the parental demand for charter options in our district will not cease as long we fail to adequately see improvement of chronically low performing schools.'\u003ccite>Valerie Cuevas, school board candidate\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Charter schools concern us because they siphon off students and money from the other schools in the district, without sharing the challenges of educating ALL students,” the letter stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This November, three out of five seats on the WCCUSD Board of Education are open for election. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the produce aisle of Eureka Natural Foods, every mushroom, zucchini and head of cabbage is organic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Organic, organic, organic,” says Bill Schaser, a retired teacher and loyal customer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says local stores like this, and the local farmers that supply them, want to protect their organic brand. And they want to take advantage of new marketing opportunities that come with being GMO-free. 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They want to prevent contamination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone within 2 miles of me plants a GMO variety of apples, the way the bees fly, it’s beyond my control. It’d get GMO pollen in my apple flowers,” says Clif Clendenen, owner of Clendenen's Cider Works, an organic apple farm in Fortuna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Secondarily, many of my customers don’t want GMOs in their food,” he adds. “So there’s a marketing reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10346339\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/yesonp.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10346339\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/yesonp-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Yes on P posters hang outside stores and homes throughout Humboldt County. 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Schaser says they were expecting to get crushed by a No campaign sponsored by GMO seed companies like Monsanto and Syngenta. But those corporations ignored Measure P and instead invested in blocking statewide GMO labeling propositions in Colorado and Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though there’s no official campaign against Measure P, there are still farmers that plan to vote no, even organic farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a tool they’re taking out of our toolbox that we can’t use anymore,” says John Vovoda, a dairy farmer in Ferndale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His farm is organic now -- he ships 6,000 gallons of organic milk every day that shows up on store shelves throughout California. But his operation used to be conventional. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the produce aisle of Eureka Natural Foods, every mushroom, zucchini and head of cabbage is organic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Organic, organic, organic,” says Bill Schaser, a retired teacher and loyal customer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says local stores like this, and the local farmers that supply them, want to protect their organic brand. And they want to take advantage of new marketing opportunities that come with being GMO-free. That’s why they’re backing \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/Humboldt_County_%22Genetic_Contamination_Prevention_Ordinance%22_GMO_Ban_Initiative,_Measure_P_(November_2014)\" target=\"_blank\">Measure P,\u003c/a> a local measure that would prohibit growing genetically modified crops in Humboldt County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/175142214&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/175142214'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a growing economy. And we think we should go with it and get behind that movement as much as possible,” says Schaser, spokesman for the Yes on Measure P campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It's no secret that successful political campaigns are almost always driven by money. And lest you think that's a new thing, consider that one of California's most famous political maxims -- that \"money is the mother's milk of politics\" -- was first uttered by the state's legendary politico \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_M._Unruh\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Unruh\u003c/a> back in \u003ca href=\"http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,872928,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">1962\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, more than ever, it's a system dominated by big money from wealthy individuals. Some are well known, others you've never heard of. No state, it seems, has more wealthy players than California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: five people (four people, actually, and one family) whose combined California campaign contributions for 2014 now surpass $18.2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not all. Dig deep down inside the archives of campaign finance records and you'll find these VIPs have collectively spent -- drum roll, please -- some $95 million in an attempt to influence local, regional, and statewide political races since 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our sample isn't scientific, but rather a glimpse into the world of big donor politics. And so the five with a fistful of dollars, ordered by the size of their political wallets...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. \u003cstrong>Charlie Munger, $69.8 million\u003c/strong>: The lion's share of this elite group's spending comes from just one man, whose own money largely came from his father. Charles T. Munger, Jr. is the son of \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/profile/charles-munger/\" target=\"_blank\">Charles T. Munger, Sr.\u003c/a>, the longtime business partner of investor Warren Buffett. The younger Munger is a Palo Alto physicist whose political donations, per state records, began in 2005. A Republican who wrote checks to help advance the agenda of former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Munger was best known in the early years as the champion of changes to the once-a-decade system of political redistricting (which happened through successful \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_11,_Creation_of_the_California_Citizens_Redistricting_Commission_(2008)\" target=\"_blank\">2008\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_20,_Congressional_Redistricting_(2010)\" target=\"_blank\">2010\u003c/a> statewide initiatives he bankrolled, and ones \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2009/09/03/redistricting-redux-congress/\" target=\"_blank\">for which I first interviewed him back in 2009\u003c/a>). Perhaps it was that electoral success that prompted Charlie Munger to think bigger, as he began to write six and seven figure checks to state GOP committees, culminating in a $43 million losing battle in 2012 to help defeat Gov. Jerry Brown's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/30/long-term-debate-over-Jerry-Brown-temporary-tax-Proposition-30/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 30\u003c/a> (which won) and pass a limit on union political power, \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_32,_the_%22Paycheck_Protection%22_Initiative_(2012)\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 32\u003c/a> (which lost). Munger has also spent generously on legislative races via \u003ca href=\"http://spiritofdemocracyamerica.com/\" target=\"_blank\">his own political action committee\u003c/a>, as well as a Republican voter registration drive (which led to \u003ca href=\"http://www.chatsports.com/anaheim-ducks/a/Riverside-County-GOP-registration-surge-raises-questions-of-fraud-0-6553873\" target=\"_blank\">accusations that some of the registered had their party preference switched without consent\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, records show that Munger has spent \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1277366&session=2013&view=late2\" target=\"_blank\">a little more than $7 million\u003c/a>, mostly on Republican party operations and candidates. All of this political spending recently earned the spotlight averse Californian some national media attention: \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/11/opinion/sunday/top-twelve-political-donors-in-twelve-years.html\" target=\"_blank\">number five on the New York Times' list of national big players over the past twelve years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. \u003cstrong>The Family of Don Fisher, $12.35 million\u003c/strong>: This isn't an individual, though it does begin with an individual -- the founder of the Gap, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/business/29fisher.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Donald G. Fisher\u003c/a>, who died in 2009. Fisher was a San Francisco native whose donations over the years made clear his passion for politics even as he went on to create a multibillion dollar clothing empire. Fisher was a Republican, but supported candidates across the spectrum, though campaign finance records make clear that business groups and causes were tops on the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $3.4 million in contributions by Fisher were reported just since 2002, an additional $2.4 million given jointly with his wife, \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/profile/doris-fisher/\" target=\"_blank\">Doris\u003c/a>. She is an active political player in her own right, having spent more than $3.6 million this decade, $1.5 million of it this year on causes ranging from Gov. Jerry Brown's campaign for \u003ca href=\"http://www.yesonprops1and2.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 1 and Proposition 2\u003c/a> to a big independent expenditure effort in support of state schools chief challenger \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article2620708.html\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall Tuck\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there are the Fisher children, the next generation of big spenders on California politics: Robert Fisher, John Fisher and wife Laura, William Fisher and wife Sakurako. Their causes vary, but common themes include support of groups who want education reform; moderate Republicans; environmental causes (especially opposition to \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_23,_the_Suspension_of_AB_32_(2010)\" target=\"_blank\">a 2010 initiative that would have rolled back the state's climate change law\u003c/a>); and the political efforts of Governor Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(It should be noted that Brown and the Fisher family have some fascinating back stories. Not only was First Lady \u003ca href=\"http://archive.news10.net/news/article/245562/2/Californias-First-Lady-comfortable-with-role-not-title\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Gust Brown\u003c/a> a long time Gap Inc. executive, but some \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/24/local/la-me-pc-secret-donors-california-initiatives-20131024\" target=\"_blank\">journalistic sleuthing of redacted files in 2013 suggested that some Fisher family members handed over about $9 million\u003c/a> -- money not tracked by campaign records and thus not part of our total -- to \u003ca href=\"http://archive.news10.net/news/article/261647/525/State-levies-16-million-fine-over-2012-mystery-campaign-cash\" target=\"_blank\">an opaque effort to kill the governor's Prop. 30 and also pass Prop. 32 in 2012\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combined, the Fisher children have spent about $2.15 million on California politics in 2014 alone. And for a Bay Area based family, it's noteworthy that this includes contributions down south, to the Los Angeles County supervisor's race for Kennedy cousin \u003ca href=\"http://www.bobbyshriver.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby Shriver\u003c/a> and a Santa Monica state senate candidate (who we'll get to in a moment).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. \u003cstrong>Bill Bloomfield, $7.8 million\u003c/strong>: No one on this list offers a better example in 2014 of the power of independent political contributions than Manhattan Beach businessman William Bloomfield, Jr. A contributor to mainly Republican political causes in California since at least 2005 (per state records), Bloomfield ran for office himself in 2012 -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailybreeze.com/government-and-politics/20121107/33rd-congressional-district-henry-waxman-survives-challenge-from-bill-bloomfield\" target=\"_blank\">challenging longtime U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) in a newly drawn LA congressional district\u003c/a>. Bloomfield lost, but has remained engaged in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the real estate investor has spent close to $5.8 million -- more than double the amount of money he's ever spent on statewide issues -- trying to help elect two men: Marshall Tuck in the race for state superintendent of public instruction, and Ben Allen as a state senator from Santa Monica. The money has been donated to independent committees -- the unlimited and legal avenue for big bucks, given the low contribution limits for donations given directly to Tuck or Allen's campaigns. Tuck is a Democrat who's received the backing of a lot of Republicans in this election cycle. Allen (who, as mentioned earlier, has also received help from the Fisher family) is a particularly interesting choice for the former Republican millionaire Bloomfield, as the Democrat is generally considered a left-of-center candidate in \u003ca href=\"http://www.jewishjournal.com/cover_story/article/school_board_member_allen_battles_womens_rights_activist_fluke_for_district\" target=\"_blank\">an intraparty state Senate race with national activist Sandra Fluke\u003c/a>. Bloomfield's wife, Susan, has also written campaign checks in 2014, though for a much more modest amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloomfield \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-newton-column-fluke-allen-campaign-money-20141027-column.html\" target=\"_blank\">has been taking some heat for the big money\u003c/a> (now closing in on $3 million to help Allen and another $300,000 over the weekend in support of Tuck), and responded \u003ca href=\"http://www.billbloomfield.com/why-we-do-this-oct-27-2014/\" target=\"_blank\">on his website last week\u003c/a> to that criticism:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Until our campaign finance system is overhauled, we are trying to level the playing field for smart, ethical, good government type candidates who refuse to be part of the \"pay to play\" system that funnels cash from special interests who want favorable action from the government in return.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And a common thread with others on this list who lean Republican: Bloomfield was a financial supporter of Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as the ex-governor's causes to change redistricting and the political primary process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. \u003cstrong>Michael Bloomberg, $2.57 million\u003c/strong>: Okay, so he's a New Yorker. Still, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has started making bigger and bigger plays in California politics, especially in 2014. The billionaire politician, whose \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/in-politics-mayor-bloomberg-operates-as-a-party-of-one/2012/08/09/0e5950be-e241-11e1-98e7-89d659f9c106_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">disdain for the major political parties seemed to grow by the year while in office\u003c/a>, now spends money on issues and races outside the Empire State where he thinks he can make a difference. In 2014, Bloomberg has focused more than $1.4 million in California on two things in particular: schools and soda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On schools, Bloomberg has joined others on this list to fund the independent expenditure campaign in support of schools chief candidate Marshall Tuck (and these contributions are proof, allege supporters of incumbent Tom Torlakson, that \u003ca href=\"https://talkingunion.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/millionaires-try-to-defeat-teachers-unions-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">wealthy donors who dislike teachers unions\u003c/a> are trying to reshape schools). On soda, an issue he lost on in the Big City, the ex-mayor has jumped in with gusto to support to imposition of a local tax on sugary beverages in Berkeley, chipping in more than $647,000 so far -- a huge amount when it comes to a local ballot measure. In the past, Bloomberg has written checks in support of initiatives to boost California's cigarette tax (both were defeated) and even some legislative and local school board races. He may live in the City That Never Sleeps, but more and more his dollars are headed west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. \u003cstrong>Laurene Powell Jobs, $1.6 million\u003c/strong>: The wife of the late Apple impresario Steve Jobs makes the list not so much because of total dollars as the causes in which she seeks to engage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jobs had barely given any noticeable money to state political campaigns ($196, 000 over three election cycles) before 2010, when she wrote a $200,000 check to the campaign to defend California's climate change law and \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2010/11/03/prop-23-lands-with-a-thud/\" target=\"_blank\">help defeat that year's Proposition 23\u003c/a>. Before that, Powell Jobs had stuck to fights against parental notification for a teen's abortion and support of \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_82,_Free_Half-Day_Public_Preschool_Program_(June_2006)\" target=\"_blank\">a universal preschool initiative that ultimately fizzled\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Powell Jobs has thrown the weight of her checkbook behind a candidate for schools chief. Guess which one? Yes, a $500,000 contribution to the independent effort for Tuck. She also supports the Shriver candidacy for L.A. supervisor; and she's put $100,000 into the \u003ca href=\"http://votersedge.org/sacramento/ballot-measures/2014/november/measure-l#.VFQHaVPF_gN\" target=\"_blank\">'strong mayor' ballot measure\u003c/a> in the city of Sacramento. The mayor, Kevin Johnson, has earned her financial support in his previous campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are, by no means, the only wealthy men and women whose checkbooks open wide for causes they care about in the world of California politics. And there are some common threads here -- most notably, the support for some kind of reworking of the state's education system. In particular, three people on the list -- Michael Bloomberg, Laurene Powell Jobs, and Doris Fisher -- have all spent money trying to elect men and women to local school boards, with Powell Jobs and Fisher both backers of \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/Los_Angeles_Unified_School_District_elections_(2013)#Coalition_for_School_Reform\" target=\"_blank\">a Los Angeles coalition in 2013\u003c/a> that saw two of three candidates defeated. Members of the Fisher family have been big donors to the advocacy nonprofit EdVoice, a group engaged in debates ranging from new teacher dismissal rules to charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, 2014 has marked a big shift in their collective political engagement. Set aside Munger's explosion of 2012 cash and this has been the most active election cycle yet for this group of elite donors. The next question, of course: is 2014 an anomaly, or will they open their wallets even wider in 2016?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NOTE: This list only covers campaign money for state races and issues, as researched in the \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">online files of the California secretary of state\u003c/a>. It does \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">not\u003c/span> cover money these individuals may have given to federal candidates or political action committees, as that money may not necessarily translate into attempting to influence the political conversation in the Golden State.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's no secret that successful political campaigns are almost always driven by money. And lest you think that's a new thing, consider that one of California's most famous political maxims -- that \"money is the mother's milk of politics\" -- was first uttered by the state's legendary politico \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_M._Unruh\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Unruh\u003c/a> back in \u003ca href=\"http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,872928,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">1962\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, more than ever, it's a system dominated by big money from wealthy individuals. Some are well known, others you've never heard of. No state, it seems, has more wealthy players than California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point: five people (four people, actually, and one family) whose combined California campaign contributions for 2014 now surpass $18.2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not all. Dig deep down inside the archives of campaign finance records and you'll find these VIPs have collectively spent -- drum roll, please -- some $95 million in an attempt to influence local, regional, and statewide political races since 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our sample isn't scientific, but rather a glimpse into the world of big donor politics. And so the five with a fistful of dollars, ordered by the size of their political wallets...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. \u003cstrong>Charlie Munger, $69.8 million\u003c/strong>: The lion's share of this elite group's spending comes from just one man, whose own money largely came from his father. Charles T. Munger, Jr. is the son of \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/profile/charles-munger/\" target=\"_blank\">Charles T. Munger, Sr.\u003c/a>, the longtime business partner of investor Warren Buffett. The younger Munger is a Palo Alto physicist whose political donations, per state records, began in 2005. A Republican who wrote checks to help advance the agenda of former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Munger was best known in the early years as the champion of changes to the once-a-decade system of political redistricting (which happened through successful \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_11,_Creation_of_the_California_Citizens_Redistricting_Commission_(2008)\" target=\"_blank\">2008\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_20,_Congressional_Redistricting_(2010)\" target=\"_blank\">2010\u003c/a> statewide initiatives he bankrolled, and ones \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/capitalnotes/2009/09/03/redistricting-redux-congress/\" target=\"_blank\">for which I first interviewed him back in 2009\u003c/a>). Perhaps it was that electoral success that prompted Charlie Munger to think bigger, as he began to write six and seven figure checks to state GOP committees, culminating in a $43 million losing battle in 2012 to help defeat Gov. Jerry Brown's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/30/long-term-debate-over-Jerry-Brown-temporary-tax-Proposition-30/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 30\u003c/a> (which won) and pass a limit on union political power, \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_32,_the_%22Paycheck_Protection%22_Initiative_(2012)\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 32\u003c/a> (which lost). Munger has also spent generously on legislative races via \u003ca href=\"http://spiritofdemocracyamerica.com/\" target=\"_blank\">his own political action committee\u003c/a>, as well as a Republican voter registration drive (which led to \u003ca href=\"http://www.chatsports.com/anaheim-ducks/a/Riverside-County-GOP-registration-surge-raises-questions-of-fraud-0-6553873\" target=\"_blank\">accusations that some of the registered had their party preference switched without consent\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, records show that Munger has spent \u003ca href=\"http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Committees/Detail.aspx?id=1277366&session=2013&view=late2\" target=\"_blank\">a little more than $7 million\u003c/a>, mostly on Republican party operations and candidates. All of this political spending recently earned the spotlight averse Californian some national media attention: \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/11/opinion/sunday/top-twelve-political-donors-in-twelve-years.html\" target=\"_blank\">number five on the New York Times' list of national big players over the past twelve years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. \u003cstrong>The Family of Don Fisher, $12.35 million\u003c/strong>: This isn't an individual, though it does begin with an individual -- the founder of the Gap, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/business/29fisher.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Donald G. Fisher\u003c/a>, who died in 2009. Fisher was a San Francisco native whose donations over the years made clear his passion for politics even as he went on to create a multibillion dollar clothing empire. Fisher was a Republican, but supported candidates across the spectrum, though campaign finance records make clear that business groups and causes were tops on the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $3.4 million in contributions by Fisher were reported just since 2002, an additional $2.4 million given jointly with his wife, \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/profile/doris-fisher/\" target=\"_blank\">Doris\u003c/a>. She is an active political player in her own right, having spent more than $3.6 million this decade, $1.5 million of it this year on causes ranging from Gov. Jerry Brown's campaign for \u003ca href=\"http://www.yesonprops1and2.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 1 and Proposition 2\u003c/a> to a big independent expenditure effort in support of state schools chief challenger \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article2620708.html\" target=\"_blank\">Marshall Tuck\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there are the Fisher children, the next generation of big spenders on California politics: Robert Fisher, John Fisher and wife Laura, William Fisher and wife Sakurako. Their causes vary, but common themes include support of groups who want education reform; moderate Republicans; environmental causes (especially opposition to \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_23,_the_Suspension_of_AB_32_(2010)\" target=\"_blank\">a 2010 initiative that would have rolled back the state's climate change law\u003c/a>); and the political efforts of Governor Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(It should be noted that Brown and the Fisher family have some fascinating back stories. Not only was First Lady \u003ca href=\"http://archive.news10.net/news/article/245562/2/Californias-First-Lady-comfortable-with-role-not-title\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Gust Brown\u003c/a> a long time Gap Inc. executive, but some \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/24/local/la-me-pc-secret-donors-california-initiatives-20131024\" target=\"_blank\">journalistic sleuthing of redacted files in 2013 suggested that some Fisher family members handed over about $9 million\u003c/a> -- money not tracked by campaign records and thus not part of our total -- to \u003ca href=\"http://archive.news10.net/news/article/261647/525/State-levies-16-million-fine-over-2012-mystery-campaign-cash\" target=\"_blank\">an opaque effort to kill the governor's Prop. 30 and also pass Prop. 32 in 2012\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combined, the Fisher children have spent about $2.15 million on California politics in 2014 alone. And for a Bay Area based family, it's noteworthy that this includes contributions down south, to the Los Angeles County supervisor's race for Kennedy cousin \u003ca href=\"http://www.bobbyshriver.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby Shriver\u003c/a> and a Santa Monica state senate candidate (who we'll get to in a moment).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. \u003cstrong>Bill Bloomfield, $7.8 million\u003c/strong>: No one on this list offers a better example in 2014 of the power of independent political contributions than Manhattan Beach businessman William Bloomfield, Jr. A contributor to mainly Republican political causes in California since at least 2005 (per state records), Bloomfield ran for office himself in 2012 -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailybreeze.com/government-and-politics/20121107/33rd-congressional-district-henry-waxman-survives-challenge-from-bill-bloomfield\" target=\"_blank\">challenging longtime U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) in a newly drawn LA congressional district\u003c/a>. Bloomfield lost, but has remained engaged in politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, the real estate investor has spent close to $5.8 million -- more than double the amount of money he's ever spent on statewide issues -- trying to help elect two men: Marshall Tuck in the race for state superintendent of public instruction, and Ben Allen as a state senator from Santa Monica. The money has been donated to independent committees -- the unlimited and legal avenue for big bucks, given the low contribution limits for donations given directly to Tuck or Allen's campaigns. Tuck is a Democrat who's received the backing of a lot of Republicans in this election cycle. Allen (who, as mentioned earlier, has also received help from the Fisher family) is a particularly interesting choice for the former Republican millionaire Bloomfield, as the Democrat is generally considered a left-of-center candidate in \u003ca href=\"http://www.jewishjournal.com/cover_story/article/school_board_member_allen_battles_womens_rights_activist_fluke_for_district\" target=\"_blank\">an intraparty state Senate race with national activist Sandra Fluke\u003c/a>. Bloomfield's wife, Susan, has also written campaign checks in 2014, though for a much more modest amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloomfield \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-newton-column-fluke-allen-campaign-money-20141027-column.html\" target=\"_blank\">has been taking some heat for the big money\u003c/a> (now closing in on $3 million to help Allen and another $300,000 over the weekend in support of Tuck), and responded \u003ca href=\"http://www.billbloomfield.com/why-we-do-this-oct-27-2014/\" target=\"_blank\">on his website last week\u003c/a> to that criticism:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Until our campaign finance system is overhauled, we are trying to level the playing field for smart, ethical, good government type candidates who refuse to be part of the \"pay to play\" system that funnels cash from special interests who want favorable action from the government in return.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And a common thread with others on this list who lean Republican: Bloomfield was a financial supporter of Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as the ex-governor's causes to change redistricting and the political primary process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. \u003cstrong>Michael Bloomberg, $2.57 million\u003c/strong>: Okay, so he's a New Yorker. Still, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has started making bigger and bigger plays in California politics, especially in 2014. The billionaire politician, whose \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/in-politics-mayor-bloomberg-operates-as-a-party-of-one/2012/08/09/0e5950be-e241-11e1-98e7-89d659f9c106_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">disdain for the major political parties seemed to grow by the year while in office\u003c/a>, now spends money on issues and races outside the Empire State where he thinks he can make a difference. In 2014, Bloomberg has focused more than $1.4 million in California on two things in particular: schools and soda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On schools, Bloomberg has joined others on this list to fund the independent expenditure campaign in support of schools chief candidate Marshall Tuck (and these contributions are proof, allege supporters of incumbent Tom Torlakson, that \u003ca href=\"https://talkingunion.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/millionaires-try-to-defeat-teachers-unions-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">wealthy donors who dislike teachers unions\u003c/a> are trying to reshape schools). On soda, an issue he lost on in the Big City, the ex-mayor has jumped in with gusto to support to imposition of a local tax on sugary beverages in Berkeley, chipping in more than $647,000 so far -- a huge amount when it comes to a local ballot measure. In the past, Bloomberg has written checks in support of initiatives to boost California's cigarette tax (both were defeated) and even some legislative and local school board races. He may live in the City That Never Sleeps, but more and more his dollars are headed west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. \u003cstrong>Laurene Powell Jobs, $1.6 million\u003c/strong>: The wife of the late Apple impresario Steve Jobs makes the list not so much because of total dollars as the causes in which she seeks to engage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jobs had barely given any noticeable money to state political campaigns ($196, 000 over three election cycles) before 2010, when she wrote a $200,000 check to the campaign to defend California's climate change law and \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2010/11/03/prop-23-lands-with-a-thud/\" target=\"_blank\">help defeat that year's Proposition 23\u003c/a>. Before that, Powell Jobs had stuck to fights against parental notification for a teen's abortion and support of \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_82,_Free_Half-Day_Public_Preschool_Program_(June_2006)\" target=\"_blank\">a universal preschool initiative that ultimately fizzled\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Powell Jobs has thrown the weight of her checkbook behind a candidate for schools chief. Guess which one? Yes, a $500,000 contribution to the independent effort for Tuck. She also supports the Shriver candidacy for L.A. supervisor; and she's put $100,000 into the \u003ca href=\"http://votersedge.org/sacramento/ballot-measures/2014/november/measure-l#.VFQHaVPF_gN\" target=\"_blank\">'strong mayor' ballot measure\u003c/a> in the city of Sacramento. The mayor, Kevin Johnson, has earned her financial support in his previous campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are, by no means, the only wealthy men and women whose checkbooks open wide for causes they care about in the world of California politics. And there are some common threads here -- most notably, the support for some kind of reworking of the state's education system. In particular, three people on the list -- Michael Bloomberg, Laurene Powell Jobs, and Doris Fisher -- have all spent money trying to elect men and women to local school boards, with Powell Jobs and Fisher both backers of \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/Los_Angeles_Unified_School_District_elections_(2013)#Coalition_for_School_Reform\" target=\"_blank\">a Los Angeles coalition in 2013\u003c/a> that saw two of three candidates defeated. Members of the Fisher family have been big donors to the advocacy nonprofit EdVoice, a group engaged in debates ranging from new teacher dismissal rules to charter schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, 2014 has marked a big shift in their collective political engagement. Set aside Munger's explosion of 2012 cash and this has been the most active election cycle yet for this group of elite donors. The next question, of course: is 2014 an anomaly, or will they open their wallets even wider in 2016?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Nov. 4, Berkeley voters will show where they stand on Measure D, the so-called soda tax. The proposed tax on sugary beverages has been one of the most hotly debated Berkeley issues in the city’s history, and certainly one that has brought in record levels of campaign expenditures. The No on Measure D lobby has spent $2.3 million in an attempt to defeat the tax, according to campaign finance reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has contributed $532,071 in support of the soda tax. (That includes $265,235 for network advertising for commercials during the World Series, $96,836 for cable ads, and a cash donation of $170,000 to the Yes on Measure D effort.) UC Berkeley’s Robert Reich has been vocal in his views — writing a blog post about the issue titled “In its battle with Big Soda, Berkeley may once again make history,” and shooting a video on the same subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gael McKeon\u003c/strong> has spent several weeks documenting both sides of the campaign with his camera to create this photo essay of a pivotal moment in Berkeley’s political history, one that may set the stage for change nationwide. (The No on D campaign declined to participate in this story.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346260\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda2.jpg\" alt=\"soda2\" width=\"720\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda2.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda2-400x285.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kad Smith, administrative assistant to the Education and Engagement Program at the Ecology Center, and volunteer for Berkeley vs. Big Soda, talks to a Berkeley resident and registered voter about Measure D: “I was raised in District 2 by my grandmother, who is diabetic. I’ve seen the impact the disease has had on her quality of life, and it’s a part of the reason I got involved in Food Justice work and The Measure D campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346263\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda3.jpg\" alt=\"soda3\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda3.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda3-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lolis Ramirez, Ali Archer, Michael Guadamuz and Maria Tellez (left to right) spend a Saturday morning preparing materials for volunteers who will be canvassing for the Berkeley vs. Big Soda campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda4.jpg\" alt=\"soda4\" width=\"720\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda4.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda4-400x320.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An opponent of the soda tax, Roy Mowrouzi, stands inside Café Rio, his restaurant at 2148 Center St. in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco.jpg\" alt=\"6-Big-Tabaco\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346697\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Pertschuk is director of Grassroots Change, and former President and Executive Director of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights in Berkeley, California (1986–2007), during which time he ran a grassroots campaign to ban smoking on all commercial airline flights in the United States. At a public event in UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall, Pertschuk demonstrates the symmetries between big Tobacco and Big Soda’s political strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346265\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5.jpg\" alt=\"soda5\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Implementing a strategy of saturated advertising (with unprecedented political campaign contributions from the American Beverage Association) and blanketing the city with its message, No on D has bought all of the available ad space in the Ashby BART Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda6.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346266\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda6.jpg\" alt=\"soda6\" width=\"720\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda6.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda6-400x320.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employed by the No on D campaign, and funded by the American Beverage Association California PAC, a team of canvassers approaches BART riders with pamphlets and fliers. Though the canvassers would not engage in conversation, one of them communicated that they had been instructed not to speak with members of the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda7.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346268\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda7.jpg\" alt=\"soda7\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda7.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda7-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Skidmore, sales manager at J&J Vending Inc., among the company’s warehoused inventory of beverages. “I just don’t think the tax is going to solve childhood diabetes…,” she said. “If I believed the tax was going to go to help the children, I’d be all about it. The truth of the matter is that it’ll just go to the consumer anyway, just like any other tax does. They don’t have a plan for the tax. It’s a tax without education.” Skidmore, whose grandfather and father started the business in 1978 out of their garage, is also a board member of the California Automatic Vending Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346270\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda8.jpg\" alt=\"soda8\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda8.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda8-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teamsters Local 70’s Recording Secretary Ruben Bustillos (left), and Business Agent Lou Marchetti (right), have aligned themselves with the soda companies on this issue. They stress that the tax is a regressive one, and that government continues to hand out tax breaks to the rich, while taxing the average working person. Under the Teamsters Local 70 contract, entry-level positions at the beverage companies pay between $15 and $20/hour — some reaching $25 within the first year. These jobs provide pensions and health and welfare plans. Marchetti is concerned that the public doesn’t realize that good jobs are provided by the industry for young adults who can’t afford college, with some companies even offering tuition reimbursement programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/soda-truck.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/soda-truck.jpg\" alt=\"soda truck\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346699\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/soda-truck.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/soda-truck-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Maze, 29, is a delivery driver employed by 7Up, and under Teamsters Local No.70 contract. He worries everyday about the toll the tax will take on his work hours. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/11-Darryl-Moore.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/11-Darryl-Moore.jpg\" alt=\"11-Darryl-Moore\" width=\"556\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346717\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/11-Darryl-Moore.jpg 556w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/11-Darryl-Moore-400x517.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Darryl Moore, who represents City Council District 2 in the City of Berkeley. “I suffer from type two diabetes, as have my uncles and cousins. I’ve had aunts who’ve lost limbs and an uncle who went blind because of diabetes. So, this soda tax is very important to me… We know the taxes we have on tobacco have led to a decrease in tobacco smoking. I’m hoping, and think, that it will lead to a reduction in the consumption of sugar sweetened beverages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/13-Dr.-Lynch.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/13-Dr.-Lynch.jpg\" alt=\"13-Dr.-Lynch\" width=\"720\" height=\"580\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346719\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/13-Dr.-Lynch.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/13-Dr.-Lynch-400x322.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Marty Lynch, Director of Lifelong Medical Center, has been with the center since 1980. Since then, he’s seen a tremendous increase in the amount of children’s diabetes in the population. “We’re a healthcare provider, especially for low-income people. We’re all in favor [of the tax] because we see the kids with diabetes. We see the elder people with health problems. Getting people to eat healthier is a good thing, and soda is not high on my list of healthy foods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda9.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346269\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda9.jpg\" alt=\"soda9\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda9.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda9-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Executive director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California, and Berkeley vs. Big Soda volunteer, Xavier Morales stands outside his Berkeley home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/14-Sokas-office.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/14-Sokas-office.jpg\" alt=\"14-Sokas-office\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346722\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/14-Sokas-office.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/14-Sokas-office-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sara Soka, campaign manager for Berkeley vs. Big Soda, works late at the Yes campaign’s headquarters in downtown Berkeley, with a small team of telephone canvassers volunteering below her makeshift second-story office. Soka, who holds a master’s degree in population health sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said: “Unless we take action, 40 percent of all kids in the U.S. will get Type II diabetes in their lifetime. The rate is even higher for African-American and Latino kids, at one in two. Science shows soda and other sugary drinks are clearly tied to an increased risk of diabetes, while the beverage industry spends billions marketing to kids, especially in communities of color. I want fewer families to have to watch a loved one suffer from this disease, or lose someone early due to its complications. As a nation, we have to stand up. We’ll do it one city at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleyside.com\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/lh_3b\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside's Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Nov. 4, Berkeley voters will show where they stand on Measure D, the so-called soda tax. The proposed tax on sugary beverages has been one of the most hotly debated Berkeley issues in the city’s history, and certainly one that has brought in record levels of campaign expenditures. The No on Measure D lobby has spent $2.3 million in an attempt to defeat the tax, according to campaign finance reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has contributed $532,071 in support of the soda tax. (That includes $265,235 for network advertising for commercials during the World Series, $96,836 for cable ads, and a cash donation of $170,000 to the Yes on Measure D effort.) UC Berkeley’s Robert Reich has been vocal in his views — writing a blog post about the issue titled “In its battle with Big Soda, Berkeley may once again make history,” and shooting a video on the same subject.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gael McKeon\u003c/strong> has spent several weeks documenting both sides of the campaign with his camera to create this photo essay of a pivotal moment in Berkeley’s political history, one that may set the stage for change nationwide. (The No on D campaign declined to participate in this story.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346260\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda2.jpg\" alt=\"soda2\" width=\"720\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda2.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda2-400x285.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kad Smith, administrative assistant to the Education and Engagement Program at the Ecology Center, and volunteer for Berkeley vs. Big Soda, talks to a Berkeley resident and registered voter about Measure D: “I was raised in District 2 by my grandmother, who is diabetic. I’ve seen the impact the disease has had on her quality of life, and it’s a part of the reason I got involved in Food Justice work and The Measure D campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346263\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda3.jpg\" alt=\"soda3\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda3.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda3-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lolis Ramirez, Ali Archer, Michael Guadamuz and Maria Tellez (left to right) spend a Saturday morning preparing materials for volunteers who will be canvassing for the Berkeley vs. Big Soda campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda4.jpg\" alt=\"soda4\" width=\"720\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda4.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda4-400x320.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An opponent of the soda tax, Roy Mowrouzi, stands inside Café Rio, his restaurant at 2148 Center St. in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco.jpg\" alt=\"6-Big-Tabaco\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346697\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/6-Big-Tabaco-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Pertschuk is director of Grassroots Change, and former President and Executive Director of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights in Berkeley, California (1986–2007), during which time he ran a grassroots campaign to ban smoking on all commercial airline flights in the United States. At a public event in UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall, Pertschuk demonstrates the symmetries between big Tobacco and Big Soda’s political strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346265\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5.jpg\" alt=\"soda5\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda5-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Implementing a strategy of saturated advertising (with unprecedented political campaign contributions from the American Beverage Association) and blanketing the city with its message, No on D has bought all of the available ad space in the Ashby BART Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda6.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346266\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda6.jpg\" alt=\"soda6\" width=\"720\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda6.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda6-400x320.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employed by the No on D campaign, and funded by the American Beverage Association California PAC, a team of canvassers approaches BART riders with pamphlets and fliers. Though the canvassers would not engage in conversation, one of them communicated that they had been instructed not to speak with members of the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda7.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346268\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda7.jpg\" alt=\"soda7\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda7.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda7-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Skidmore, sales manager at J&J Vending Inc., among the company’s warehoused inventory of beverages. “I just don’t think the tax is going to solve childhood diabetes…,” she said. “If I believed the tax was going to go to help the children, I’d be all about it. The truth of the matter is that it’ll just go to the consumer anyway, just like any other tax does. They don’t have a plan for the tax. It’s a tax without education.” Skidmore, whose grandfather and father started the business in 1978 out of their garage, is also a board member of the California Automatic Vending Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346270\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda8.jpg\" alt=\"soda8\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda8.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda8-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teamsters Local 70’s Recording Secretary Ruben Bustillos (left), and Business Agent Lou Marchetti (right), have aligned themselves with the soda companies on this issue. They stress that the tax is a regressive one, and that government continues to hand out tax breaks to the rich, while taxing the average working person. Under the Teamsters Local 70 contract, entry-level positions at the beverage companies pay between $15 and $20/hour — some reaching $25 within the first year. These jobs provide pensions and health and welfare plans. Marchetti is concerned that the public doesn’t realize that good jobs are provided by the industry for young adults who can’t afford college, with some companies even offering tuition reimbursement programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/soda-truck.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/soda-truck.jpg\" alt=\"soda truck\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346699\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/soda-truck.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/soda-truck-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Maze, 29, is a delivery driver employed by 7Up, and under Teamsters Local No.70 contract. He worries everyday about the toll the tax will take on his work hours. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/11-Darryl-Moore.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/11-Darryl-Moore.jpg\" alt=\"11-Darryl-Moore\" width=\"556\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346717\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/11-Darryl-Moore.jpg 556w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/11-Darryl-Moore-400x517.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Darryl Moore, who represents City Council District 2 in the City of Berkeley. “I suffer from type two diabetes, as have my uncles and cousins. I’ve had aunts who’ve lost limbs and an uncle who went blind because of diabetes. So, this soda tax is very important to me… We know the taxes we have on tobacco have led to a decrease in tobacco smoking. I’m hoping, and think, that it will lead to a reduction in the consumption of sugar sweetened beverages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/13-Dr.-Lynch.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/13-Dr.-Lynch.jpg\" alt=\"13-Dr.-Lynch\" width=\"720\" height=\"580\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346719\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/13-Dr.-Lynch.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/13-Dr.-Lynch-400x322.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Marty Lynch, Director of Lifelong Medical Center, has been with the center since 1980. Since then, he’s seen a tremendous increase in the amount of children’s diabetes in the population. “We’re a healthcare provider, especially for low-income people. We’re all in favor [of the tax] because we see the kids with diabetes. We see the elder people with health problems. Getting people to eat healthier is a good thing, and soda is not high on my list of healthy foods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda9.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346269\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda9.jpg\" alt=\"soda9\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda9.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/soda9-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Executive director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California, and Berkeley vs. Big Soda volunteer, Xavier Morales stands outside his Berkeley home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/14-Sokas-office.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/14-Sokas-office.jpg\" alt=\"14-Sokas-office\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10346722\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/14-Sokas-office.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/14-Sokas-office-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sara Soka, campaign manager for Berkeley vs. Big Soda, works late at the Yes campaign’s headquarters in downtown Berkeley, with a small team of telephone canvassers volunteering below her makeshift second-story office. Soka, who holds a master’s degree in population health sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said: “Unless we take action, 40 percent of all kids in the U.S. will get Type II diabetes in their lifetime. The rate is even higher for African-American and Latino kids, at one in two. Science shows soda and other sugary drinks are clearly tied to an increased risk of diabetes, while the beverage industry spends billions marketing to kids, especially in communities of color. I want fewer families to have to watch a loved one suffer from this disease, or lose someone early due to its complications. As a nation, we have to stand up. We’ll do it one city at a time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California's attorney general is often known as the state's \"top cop.\" And to be sure, Kamala Harris has done her share of \"law and order\" press conferences announcing drug busts and gang takedowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as she heads into Tuesday's election, Harris has clearly emphasized different priorities than her predecessors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Harris' \u003ca href=\"http://kamalaharris.org/frontpage-article/truancyspots/\" target=\"_blank\">new TV ads\u003c/a> makes clear \u003cem>how\u003c/em> different she is from previous attorneys general. The ad features a smiling Harris sitting around a classroom table with young schoolkids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're chronically truant from elementary school, you are four times more likely to drop out and become a perpetrator or a victim of crime,\" Harris says in the commercial. \"That's why we're taking on the truancy crisis in the California Department of Justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/174746535\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ad ends with a smiling Harris high-fiving all the children. It is, Harris acknowledges, a distinctly different emphasis from the typical \"lock 'em up and throw away the key\" approach to law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we have accepted a false choice, which suggests that one can either be soft on crime or tough on crime, instead of asking, 'Are we smart on crime?'\" Harris said this week. She compares law enforcement with public health -- favoring prevention over treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the sniffles (come) on, then it's early intervention,\" she says. \"But if we're dealing with it in the emergency room or the prison system, it's much too late and it's far too expensive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has made reducing truancy a cornerstone of her job. Yet an A.G. has little direct impact over that. And Gov. Jerry Brown recently vetoed two anti-truancy bills she was pushing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"I think we have accepted a false choice, which suggests that one can either be soft on crime or tough on crime, instead of asking, 'Are we smart on crime?'\"\u003ccite>Kamala Harris, California attorney general\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But Imperial County District Attorney Gilbert Otero, who heads the state association of DA's, appreciates Harris using the bully pulpit on issues like truancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Truancy \u003cem>is\u003c/em> a big issue\" Otero said. \"If the attorney general comes down and starts talking about something like that, then you know I'm all for it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, as California was drowning in home foreclosures, Harris took a big gamble. She walked away from national settlement talks between the Obama administration and several big banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five months later, she announced a separate deal, which she called \"the California commitment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The deal that is specific to California includes $12 billion of principal reductions and short-sale relief for California homeowners,\" Harris said at a press conference covered by national media outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement was hailed as a huge win for California -- and it earned Harris a splashy profile in the New York Times. But two years later, how much benefit have homeowners actually seen from that $12 billion?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Bruce Marks, director of the nonprofit Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, the headlines didn't match the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know she did stand up, she did take on the banks,\" Marks said. \"But you know we haven't seen the significant impact for California homeowners like we would have expected to see.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marks, who brags he \"terrorizes\" bankers, has helped win mortgage relief for thousands of homeowners across the nation. While Harris acknowledges some glitches in how the agreement was implemented, her office points to a report from the state monitor overseeing the deal, which said that big banks actually \u003cem>exceeded\u003c/em> the relief Harris negotiated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how effective has Kamala Harris been? Robert Weisberg, co-director of the Criminal Justice Center at Stanford, notes that for better or worse, Harris is defined by the style and panache she brings to the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's so good at it there will be those who say, 'Oh my God, she's just so charismatic, I'm overwhelmed, I'm dazzled,'\" Weisberg jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And there are those who say, 'Ah, it's all just style, it's not substance.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris dismisses comments like that, or President Obama's observation that she is \"by far the best-looking attorney general\" in the country, as \"distractions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisberg notes that despite perceptions of the A.G. as the state's top law enforcement official, California limits the powers of the attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he adds that Harris' use of the office to promote issues like rehabilitation over incarceration comes as external forces, like the federal court order to reduce the state's prison population, were upending all the normal assumptions about criminal justice in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Things are changing because of all kinds of forces,\" Weisberg said, \"and she is, shall we say, participating in the change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris \u003cem>did\u003c/em> lead the charge on\u003cem> another \u003c/em>change. After two gay couples sued to overturn Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage in California, the attorney general (like her predecessor Jerry Brown) refused to defend it in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, along with Harris's argument that Prop. 8's proponents didn't have legal standing to defend it either, infuriated conservative groups, including the Pacific Legal Foundation and its attorney, Harold Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's more than troubling,\" Johnson says. \"It's actually shocking. The attorney general is the people's attorney and has a constitutional obligation to defend the laws enacted by the people and the constitutional framework.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kate Kendell of the National Center for Lesbian Rights says Harris' decision not to defend Prop. 8 as a brand-new attorney general came with some political risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She demonstrated the courage of doing the right thing for all the right reasons, even though there were certainly some who were whispering to her that it wasn't politically expedient,\" Kendell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics of Harris say she's been too \u003cem>timid\u003c/em> when aggressive action was called for. After a PG&E pipeline exploded in 2010, killing eight people in San Bruno, the city's Mayor Jim Ruane was disappointed that Harris seemed indifferent to launching an independent investigation of the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"\u003c/em>She's the top cop in the state of California and we believe it should have been her initiative. She should have taken the initiative in the very beginning to pursue what we deemed were wrongdoings,\" Ruane says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and others, like state Sen. Jerry Hill, wanted Harris to do her own independent investigation of PG&E. Harris' office counters that the attorney general \u003cem>did\u003c/em> work closely with the U.S. attorney and local officials in San Mateo County -- a collaboration that resulted in a federal grand jury indictment of PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And according to a recent Sacramento Bee article, Harris opened up a separate investigation into the gas line explosion and the California Public Utility Commission and its allegedly cozy relationship with PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other critics, like Harris' Republican opponent Ron Gold, say the attorney general is turning a blind eye to political corruption. 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"content": "\u003cp>Nostalgia for the 1990s \u003ca href=\"http://www.buzzfeed.com/rewind\">is very in right now\u003c/a> in pop culture. The same is true for Democratic politics. While Democratic candidates have been keeping President Barack Obama at arm’s length this fall, former President Bill Clinton has been campaigning all across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Clinton brought his road show to the campus of UC Davis, where he stumped for House Democrats Ami Bera and John Garamendi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton touched on a wide range of themes during his 20-minute speech -– everything from economics to history to Ebola to health care costs to, yes, how strong the economy was when he was president. But he kept circling back to one basic theme: urging the young, largely Democratic crowd to vote on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A different America shows up at most midterm elections than shows up in most presidential elections,” Clinton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That different America is typically much more conservative. And for Democrats like Bera, who won his suburban Sacramento seat by a razor-thin margin in 2012, that different electorate could mean a different outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This new politics of intense polarization, funded by outside money, designed to make you think that everyone in public life is some sort of a slug, is nuts,” Clinton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a message that voters in the 7th Congressional District can probably relate to. They’ve been swamped with third-party attack ads aimed at both Bera and Republican Doug Ose. The race is one of the most closely watched and tightly contested in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s crazy, but it has a very particular purpose in this election,” said Clinton. “And that purpose is to get you to sit it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento-area World Series viewers, who have been subjected to Bera or Ose commercials between what feels like every half-inning, could tell you that both parties are inundating the district with negative campaign ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton is a candidate of the past, but he’ll likely be part of a future presidential campaign, too. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s likely 2016 run came up only once, when Bera said he hopes his daughter has a chance to vote for “the first woman president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton stumped earlier in the day with Rep. Julia Brownley, whose Ventura County district also is among the races considered vulnerable for Democrats, and Pete Aguilar, who is running to succeed retiring Republican Rep. Gary Miller in another Southern California district that is considered a potential flip for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brownley welcomed Clinton's support, telling a crowd of about 1,200 at Oxnard College that introducing him was \"the greatest honor of a lifetime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former president told an enthusiastic audience dominated by young Latinos that it was important for their futures to re-elect Brownley and send other Democrats to Congress, according to the Ventura County Star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got all our jobs back,\" he said of the recovery from the recession. \"Now we can create the future. We must do it with equal opportunity for all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from the Associated Press. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Even Jerry Brown's critics often concede that he's a skilled politician, and so no one should be surprised about one part of this, his final campaign for governor: He's not going to even suggest any additional taxes on Californians beyond those already on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may not be a problem now. 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